Yeah, he realized after the fact that he's going to have to totally redo all the cables...but he says it was totally worth it! It was hilarious eavesdropping on the conversations on the beach as he was riding around out there. People were all "WTF, there's a BIKE IN the lake!" Then people were stopping to ask him about it.

'16 Goals:

• Do some dus...and some CX...and some tandem gravel...and some podiums...

'16 Goals:

I used to mountain bike a lot when I was a kid. We built a ramp into a little pond back in the woods where we used to ride, and in the summer we would jump our bikes into the pond. The water would catch the wheels, slow the bike down pretty suddenly, and you could do a flip over the handlebars. Not the same thing, but this reminded me of that.

Hmmm...I should suggest the ramp possibility to DH. There is a pier at that beach. DS thinks his dad should just ride off the pier. The bike floats, so it's not like he'd lose it at the bottom of Lake MI!

'16 Goals:

• Do some dus...and some CX...and some tandem gravel...and some podiums...

After spending too much time searching for our bikes at the bottom of a muddy creek that we jumped them into as kids, we started putting life jackets on them. Worked pretty good.

DS actually used DH's childhood bike until he outgrew it. I have no doubts that that thing would sink like a rock. I don't think the tubes on that thing were even hollow steel...they felt like steel filled with concrete. And the wheels were tanks, too.

'16 Goals:

• Do some dus...and some CX...and some tandem gravel...and some podiums...